Apple Inc. is charging into health and fitness, hoping to bring order to a fragmented mess of wearable devices and scattered data. John Halamka, professor of medicine and chief information officer at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, commented.
Outdoor activities and sunlight reflected up into the eyes may increase the risk of a vision condition tied to cataracts and glaucoma, a new study suggests. Louis Pasquale, professor of neurology at Massachusetts Eye and Ear, led the study.
Harvard University, citing rising health care costs, is restructuring employee health plans by adding deductibles, asking employees to pay a greater share of service costs, and making other changes. Michael Chernew, Leonard D. Schaeffer Professor of Health Care Policy and a member of Harvard’s benefits committee, was quoted.
A team of researchers has successfully achieved brain-to-brain human communication using non-invasive technologies across a distance of 5,000 miles. Study co-author Alvaro Pascual-Leone, professor of neurology at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, was quoted.
Karen O’Brien, instructor in obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive biology at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, authored this article about the loss of one twin, either during or after pregnancy.
According to a new study, airplane crew members like pilots and flight attendants face more than twice the risk of developing melanoma compared to the general population. David Fisher, Edward Wigglesworth Professor of Dermatology and head of the Department of Dermatology at the Massachusetts General Hospital, comments on the study.
William Pollack, associate clinical professor of psychology in the Department of Psychiatry at Cambridge Health Alliance, co-authored this opinion piece.
Efforts to improve what children eat should begin before they even learn to walk, a series of recent nutritional studies has found. Taken together, the data indicate that infant feeding patterns persist far longer than has been appreciated. Elsie Taveras, associate professor of population medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital, is quoted.
The prevailing attitude among doctors has been that depression during pregnancy is more dangerous to mother and child than any drug could be. Now a growing number of critics are challenging that assumption. Roy Perlis, associate professor of psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital, is quoted.
